Plow attachment for side harrows.



N0. 7l0,629. I Patented Oct. 7, I902.

W. A. TAYLOR.

PLOW ATTACHMENT FOB SIDE HARBOWS.

(Application filed July 14, 1902.)

{No Model.)

Usuran STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

IVILLIAM ALEXANDER TAYLOR, OF FRENCH CAMP, MISSISSIPPI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JAMES A. SANDERSON, OF FRENCH CAMP, MISSISSIPPI.

PLOW ATTACHMENT FOR SIDE HARROWS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 710,629, dated October 7, 1902.

Application filed July 14, 1902. Serial lilo. 115,505. (No model.)

To all 1071,0717 it may concern: having a standard 2 pendent from its rear Be it known that I, WILLIAM ALEXANDER end and preferably consisting of a down- TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States, rewardly-bowed integral terminal extension sidingat French Camp, in the countyof Chocof the beam. A suitable shovel-plow 3 is 5 taw and State of Mississippi, have invented connected to the lower end of the standard a new and useful Plow Attachment for Side in any preferred manner. At the front end Harrows, of which the following is a specifiof the standard there is an integral upstandcation. ing eye at, the top and bottom of which are This invention relates to harrows and is embraced by a clevis 5, having its pin or bolt 10 designed to provide aplow attachment which 6 passed through the opposite ends of the may be conveniently applied to an ordinary clevis and also the eye of the beam, whereby side harrow, so as to travel in rear of the thelatter and the clevisarepivotallyconnectteeth thereof, and is readily detachable when ed. A suitable nut '7 is applied to the lower not required for use. end of the clevis pin or bolt 6, so as to prevent 15 Another object is to provide for applying accidental displacement thereof and to perand removing the attachment without intermit convenient removal of the pin whenever fering with or removing any of the parts of desired. A pair of brace-bars 8 rise from the the barrow-frame, so as to greatly facilitate rear end portion of the beam, with their lower the application and removal of the attachends lying at opposite sides of the beam and 20 ment. connected thereto by a suitable fastening 9,

Another object is to have the attachment from which the braces diverge and incline conveniently adjustable, so that it may be forwardlyandhavetheirupperends provided shifted to the right and left and also raised with a longitudinal series of perforations 10. and lowered to regulate the depth of opera- For an understanding of the application of 25 tion of the plow. .the device of the present invention reference W'ith these and other objects in view the is had to Figs. 1, 2, and 3 of the drawings, present invention consists in the combination wherein it will be seen that the clevis 5 cmand arrangement of parts, as will be hereinbraces the rearwardly-inclined tooth-bar 11 after more fully described, shown in the acof an ordinary side harrow, with its ends proo companying drawings, and particularly pointjected slightly in rear thereof and embracing ed out in the appended claims, it being unthe eye A of the plow-beam, the clevis-pin 6 derstood that changes in the form, proporbeing passed through the ends of the clevis tion, size, and minor details may be made and the eye A, so as to form a pivotal or within the scope of the claims without dehinged connection between the beam and the 35 parting from the spirit or sacrificing any of tooth-bar. The brace-bars 8 incline upthe advantages of the invention. wardly across the inner sides of the handle- In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of bars 12, to which they are connected by an ordinary side harrow having the present means of suitable fasteningsas, for inattachment applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a side stance, the fastenings 13, which secure the 4o elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional braces 14:. Should it not be desirable to seview on the line 3 3 of Fig. l to show the concure the brace-bars by means of the fastennection between the beam of the attachment ings 13, they may be secured byindependent and the tooth-bar of the harrow. Fig. 4 is a fastenings. By reason of the series of perfoperspective View of the attachment removed rations 10 the brace-bars may be adjusted 5 5 from the harrow. vertically, so as to give a corresponding ad- Like characters of reference designate corjustment to the plow-beam for regulating the responding parts in all of the figures of the depth of operation thereof. Moreover, the drawings. plow can be shifted toward either side of the Referring at first more particularly to Fig. barrow by moving the clevis longitudinally I00 50 3 of the drawings, it will be seen that the thereof. In shifting the beam to one side or present attachment is made up of a beam 1, the other the upper ends of the brace-bars 8 are adjusted accordingly upon the handles of the h arrowthat is to say, one of the bars is shifted upwardly and the other downwardly in order that the beam may be properly braced in Whatever position it may be placed.

From the foregoing description it is apparent that the device of the present invention is complete in itself and is constructed and arranged so as to be conveniently applied and removed from the tooth-bar of a side barrow without removing or interfering with any of the parts of the latter. With my attachment applied to the harrow two operations are performed at the same time by means of a single implement and a single horse or team, and it will be found that the harrowingof the ground will be more thorough and satisfactory than when the plow is carried by a separate implement drawn by a separate horse or team.

What I claim is 1. The combination with a harrow having a transverse tooth-bar, of a beam having its forward end detachably connected to the tooth-bar, and provided with a standard, and a plow carried by the standard.

2. The combination with a harrow having a transverse tooth-bar, of a plow-beam having a standard and a plow carried thereby, and a clevis embracing the tooth-bar and pivotally connected to the beam.

3. The combination with a harrow and the handles thereof, of a plow-beam projected rearwardly from and having a loose connection with the barrow, a plow carried by the beam, and vertically-adj ustable braces rising from the beam and connected to the handles.

4. The combination with a harrow, of a plow-beam hinged thereto and capable of being adjustably swung transversely of the harrow, a plow carried by the beam, and adjustable braces extending from opposite sides of the beam to the harrow.

5. The combination with a harrow having their upper ends provided with perforations, I

and fastenings piercing the handles and corresponding perforations of the braces.

6. A plow attachment for barrows, comprising a beam, a standard pendent therefrom, a pair of braces rising from the beam, and provided with means for connection with a harrow, and means carried by the forward end of the beam for detachable connection with a harrow.

7. A plow attachment for barrows, comprising a beam having a standard, braces rising from the rear end portion of the beam and provided at their upperends with perforations, fastenings for interchangeable engagement with the perforations to connect the braces to a ha rrow, a clevis embracing the forward end of the beam, and a pivot-pin piercing the ends of the clevis and the beam.

8. The combination with a harrow having a transverse toothed bar which is made up of upper and lower spaced members, of a beam having its forward end inserted between the members of the toothed bar, a clevis embracing the toothed bar and the beam, a pin piercing the ends of the clevis and the beam and located in the rear of the toothed bar, and a plow carried by the beam.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM ALEXANDER TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

G. A. TRANUM, M. T. CARTER. 

